Judges mourn new law, retirement age pushed up to 70
CAIRO: Judges feel depressed, frustrated and are in deep sorrow, said Zakaria Abdel Aziz, president of the Judges Club, to The Daily Star Egypt after the People's Assembly voted in…
Egypt's Heliopolis Housing profit up 41% in first nine months
CAIRO: Heliopolis Housing net profit rose 41 percent to LE 104.8 million ($18.4 million) in the first nine months of its 2006/7 financial year, the stock exchange said on Tuesday.The…
Hurghada plays host to touring seminar on Internet's importance to the tourism sector
HURGHADA: As part of the USAID project "While in Egypt Stay Connected and in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and the Egyptian Hotel Association, the Hotel Information Program's tour…
New mid-range plane service launched: EgyptAir Express
CAIRO: From upgrading its flight services to joining the renowned Star Alliance group to venturing into an IPO, the sky is indeed the limit for the national carrier EgyptAir.Amid celebrating…
Art as a balancing act
UC Berkeley new media professor creates balance art game at AUCWalking into the American University in Cairo's Falaki Gallery may be confusing at first. Large, colorful beach balls are strewn…
That heavenly voice
The hushed ambiance of the Cairo Opera House's main building was interrupted for about an hour yesterday afternoon. Amid the huge weaved remakes of Gazbia Sirry's brilliant paintings, the second…
Resolving the leadership-public paradox: a consultative approach
JERUSALEM: The exploration of possibilities for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations has highlighted a familiar paradox: the uneasy relationship between respective leaders and their publics in the delicate context of…
The vexing paradoxes of China's evolving economy
It is generally agreed that China's impressive economic achievements during the last three decades are largely the result of the radical reform of its economic system. While private ownership of…
A gateway to freedom of which we can do more
More and more young Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa are turning to cyber activism to fight for human rights and intellectual freedom in the region. The Web,…
Jerusalem as it should be
JERUSALEM: The Jerusalem issue has long been the centre of the Palestinian-Israeli struggle, and a source of conflict and hostile feelings between the Arab/Muslim world and Israel, and sometimes the…